Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Syrian Refugee Policy Raises Serious States’ Rights Issue

The flood of refugees from Syria and other Middle East
countries that the Obama Administration is preparing to distribute to
communities across the nation raises very real and understandable
security concerns among government officials at the state and local
levels, and among the citizenry generally. It is, of course, facile for
President Obama to proclaim piously that he "is not a afraid." With
the full protection of the U.S. Secret Service, the armed forces, and
every law enforcement agency in the country protecting him, why should
he fret? The rest of us are not quite so lucky.

Whether we, or any nation, has any moral obligation
to throw open its doors and accept tens of thousands of Syrian and
other Middle Eastern refugees at this (or any) juncture, and whether it
is fiscally prudent for us to do so when we already are drowning in
entitlement spending, are questions worthy of vigorous political debate.

In
many respects, however, as important as are the security and fiscal
concerns that accompany a plan to bring in tens of thousands of refugees
from suspect nations and backgrounds, are the fundamental legal and
constitutional questions that arise when the federal government
imperiously claims absolute power to bring into the country whoever it
wants and place them in whatever communities it wants, regardless of
whether those states and counties want or can afford to maintain them.
This is why so many governors have declared their states will not be a
party to such irresponsibility. The federalism question underlying such
concerns is why the Administration's actions and threats should be
challenged in court.

Obamacare Troubles a Gift to 2016 Candidates

There have been many articles in the last year with some
variation of the headline "GOP Surrenders on Obamacare." The stories
mostly concern a tendency among some Republican policy elites to adopt
the Washington conventional wisdom that Obamacare cannot be repealed
because it has already become deeply entrenched in American life.

Those
Republicans might want to reconsider. A series of developments in
recent days suggests the Affordable Care Act is in perilous condition
and could become even more troubled in months to come.

UnitedHealth,
the nation's largest health care company, recently announced huge
losses from the sale of Obamacare plans and threatened to pull out of
the exchanges altogether. "We cannot sustain these losses," CEO Stephen
Hemsley said. "We can't really subsidize a marketplace that doesn't
appear at the moment to be sustaining itself."

The news came on
top of weeks of reports of rising costs for consumers. "Insurers have
raised premiums steeply for the most popular plans at the same time they
have boosted out-of-pocket costs such as deductibles, copays and
coinsurance in many of their offerings," The Wall Street Journal
reported.

Over at PJ Media today I discuss CNN “journalist” Christiane Amanpour’s
manifest bias and hypocrisy: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour believes “we can
all afford to be human” regarding the Syrian refugees. Recently, she
condemned the U.S. and other countries for not letting them enter the
homeland, despite FBI Director James Comey’s testimony explaining
that vetting this population is […]Read in browser »

The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a lawsuit against
Gov. Mike Pence, R-Indiana, accusing the chief executive of violating
the Constitution by blocking Syrian refugees from his state.

“This lawsuit is calling out Governor Pence on his unconstitutional
bluff,” said Judy Rabinovitz, deputy legal director of the ACLU’s
immigrants’ rights project, in a press release. “He does not have the
power to pick and choose between which lawfully admitted refugees he is
willing to accept. Singling out...

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